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  • Lord George Byron Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Syllables govern the world.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Oscar Wilde Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Betty Buckley T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice.
    Betty Buckley
    American actress and singer (1947 - )
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  • Josh Billings Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • William Shakespeare Take note! Take note, o world! To be direct and honest is not enough.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Caroline Dhavernas Talking back and being quite aggressive about stuff and not giving a care in the world about anyone. So it was more, I think, that way and I think that's what happened in that party when I stood in between two people.
    Caroline Dhavernas
    Canadian actress (1978 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Edmund Burke Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Bruce Jackson Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Bono Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if artists aren't interested in the world around them. I'm always chasing that.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Octavio Paz Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.
    Octavio Paz
    Mexican Poet, Essayist (1914 - 1998)
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  • Max Frisch Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
    Max Frisch
    Swiss writer (1911 - 1991)
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  • Barbara Demick Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Ann Macbeth Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Brad Bird Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats.
    Brad Bird
    American animator, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Teofilo Stevenson won his first Olympic gold medal in 1972 and his last world amateur championship in 1986. He won 302 fights and once went an unbelievable 11 years without a loss. Had Cuba not boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics, many think Stevenson would have won an unmatched four gold medals in boxing.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Beatrix Potter Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
    Source: Beatrix Potters Letters
    Beatrix Potter
    English writer, illustrator and conservationist (1866 - 1943)
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  • William Wordsworth That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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